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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
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787.0. "Walter M. Miller, Jr." by DEMON::REID (BOYCOTT EXXON) Wed May 03 1989 15:17

    
    I've just finished re-reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz" for the
    bizillionth time.  Unfortunately, the paperback copy I have is in
    pretty sad shape and is missing the bibliography page (if it ever had
    one).  Can anybody out there provide me with a list of other works
    by the author, Walter M. Miller Jr.  ???
    
    thanks, Marc.
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787.1Little, but maybe helpful, infoCOOKIE::PBERGHPeter Bergh, DTN 435-2658Wed May 03 1989 16:566
    I have no complete list but, to the best of my knowledge, he has only
    produced one other book, a collection of short stories.  I saw that
    some years ago, didn't like it, didn't keep it, and so can't give you
    the exact title.  I have a hardcopy version of the Canticle; it was
    issued some years ago by, if memory serves, Gregg Press and may still
    be in print.
787.2RUBY::BOYAJIANStarfleet SecurityWed May 03 1989 20:049
    He's had four other books, all collections:
    
    CONDITIONALLY HUMAN
    THE VIEW FROM THE STARS
    THE BEST OF WALTER M. MILLER (which combines the previous two books
    	in toto and adds two more stories)
    THE SCIENCE FICTION STORIES OF WALTER M. MILLER, JR.
    
    --- jerry
787.3CLOSUS::COCKERHAMThu May 04 1989 18:0415
The Science Fiction Book Club has this book in their own hardback
edition if you be needing another copy.  Canticle is easily in
my top ten favorite books to the point that a friend and I 
made some cassocks and went to a Halloween party as a couple
of the Keepers of the Memorabilia, chanting lines from the book.
We ended up in a group picture with the entire pantheon of 
Christianity: the Lord himself, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, a host of 
angels and devils, priests and nuns, etc.

It would be interesting to read a sequel to this book.  What
happened to them after they left the Earth?  Was there any life left
on Earth to rise up and nuke it again?

Tim Paul
 
787.4my kingdom for a sequelDEMON::REIDBOYCOTT EXXONThu May 04 1989 23:168
    re: .3 
    
    I know what you mean about wanting a sequel.  I can't believe this guy
    (Miller) wrote this astounding saga and then left us hanging.  I've
    read and re-read this book as many times as I have my other all-time
    favorite, "A Stand on Zanzibar."
    
    Marc
787.5Not very relevant asideRUBY::BOYAJIANStarfleet SecurityFri May 05 1989 04:3011
    There are two sequels, but in name only, and by a different writer.
    
    Michael Bishop wrote an excellent short novel, "The White Otters
    of Childhood", and a so-so novel BENEATH THE SHATTERED MOONS (a.k.a.
    AND STRANGE AT ECBATAN THE TREES) that are, according to him, set
    in the same universe a couple of hundred years later. You'd never
    really know it, though. There are really no connections between
    them and CANTICLE. Basically, he was intrigued by the idea of the
    race without Original Sin.
    
    --- jerry
787.6A sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZCLIPR::KLAESN = R*fgfpneflfifaLSun Aug 27 1989 19:5620
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Canticle for Leibowitz  (was Re: Post-nuclear fiction)
Date: 26 Aug 89 20:07:45 GMT
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
 
    There will be a sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ.
 
    "Walter M. Miller, Jr. has contracted with Bantam Books to finish
a sequel to A CANTICLE FOR LIEBOWITZ, his 30-year-old bestseller, via
agent Don Congdon.  Miller, once a prolific sf writer, stopped writing
in 1957 shortly after finishing CANTICLE."  The story in LOCUS
(September 1989, page 5) goes on to say that Miller had written 60
pages of a sequel thirty years ago, then stopped writing.  Lou Aronica
asked to see the pages recently and loved them.  Congdon relayed this
to Miller; "back came 100 pages with an outline!"  Apparently, Miller
will be receiving quite a pretty penny for this work. 
-- 
    Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com
 
787.7One of my faves, tooDOOLIN::HNELSONThu Apr 05 1990 15:183
    Did this ever happen?
    
    - Hoyt
787.8Not yetRUBY::BOYAJIANSecretary of the StratosphereFri Apr 06 1990 04:521
    --- jerry